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KMUD NewsFarm Bureaus Seek Trump Administration Intervention on Eel River Dam RemovalIn a high-stakes environmental debate, Friends of the Eel River director Alicia Hamann argues that removing the Scott Dam is not just about ecological restoration, but about addressing critical infrastructure safety and creating a more sustainable water management strategy for California's North Coast. Lisa Music reports.2025-04-2509 min

EcoNews ReportA Deal for the Eel?This week on the EcoNews Report our host Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River talks about the flurry of recent developments on Eel River dam removal. On January 31 PG&E released their final draft license surrender application, a document that outlines some of the logistics of how they plan to remove the two Eel River dams. PG&E is accepting comments on this document until March 3, you can find more information at eelriver.org.On a separate but parallel track is the publication just last week of a deal for wet-season diversions from the Eel...2025-02-1629 min

EcoNews ReportWhat Gives You Hope?Environmentalists have a reputation for being a bit too doom-and-gloom. But what gives us hope? Jen Kalt of Humboldt Waterkeeper, Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel River, Colin Fiske of the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities, and Tom Wheeler of the Environmental Protection Information Center join the show to discuss the things that give them hope. Need a dose of hope?Public Transit Wins Big in Local ElectionsCalifornia’s Pace of Emissions Cuts Is Accelerating, Report FindsEel River Fish CountsDigawututklh ReturnedSupport the sho...2024-12-2128 min

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EcoNews ReportOpportunities and Challenges for the Great Redwood TrailThis week on the EcoNews Report, our host Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River discusses the opportunities and challenges presented by the Great Redwood Trail. The project, proposed to be the longest rail-trail in the nation, is the state's opportunity to fulfill its responsibility to remediate the environmental harms caused by the old railroad. These harms include fish passage barriers, toxic waste, and hazardous debris left in the river. The trail will also provide opportunities for safe active transportation, enhanced public access to the Wild and Scenic Eel River, and a boost to the tourism economy. But...2024-06-0129 min

EcoNews ReportHow Do Fish Get Counted, and Why Does Genetic Diversity Matter?This week on the EcoNews Report, we discuss how fish are monitored and counted. Our host Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River is joined by Dave Kajtaniak from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Samantha Kannry from TRIB Research. Tune in to learn about the hopeful returns salmon returns on the Eel and why preserving genetic diversity is so important to giving species the adaptability they need to survive our changing climate.Click here to learn more about TRIB Research.Support the show 2024-03-3129 min

EcoNews ReportDeclining Access to Public SpacesOn this week’s episode of the EcoNews Report, host Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River is joined by long-time Eureka resident and fisherman Steve Rosenberg and Humboldt Trails Council’s Advisory Chair Karen Underwood. Alicia and her guests reflect on the history of losing public access to rivers and wild spaces, and discuss modern efforts underway to protect what remains. Featured is the recent issue of attempts to limit access to one of the few remaining fishing access points along the Van Duzen River at Fisher Road.To learn more about this issue, please visi...2024-02-0326 min

EcoNews ReportThe Latest on the Seismically Unsafe Scott DamOn this week’s episode of the EcoNews Report we reflect on the tragic dam failure in Libya last month and discuss why Scott Dam on the Eel River poses similar risks. The PG&E-owned dam sits right on a significant fault line, the Bartlett Spring Fault. Between its unusual engineering and a century’s worth of accumulated sediment, many factors are converging to make even PG&E wary of the risk. That’s why the company made drastic changes to how they manage the dam last spring. And that’s why they are pursuing expedited dam removal right now. 2023-10-0827 min

EcoNews ReportSonoma Proposal for Eel River Dams and Why Humboldt Should Be WaryOn this week's episode of the EcoNews Report, our host Tom Wheeler is joined by Alicia Hamann and Craig Tucker from Friends of the Eel River to discuss a vague, last-minute proposal from water users to take over part of the Potter Valley Project. Pacific Gas and Electric, owners of the two Eel River dams and diversion tunnel that make up the Project, are in the midst of preparing their license surrender and decommissioning plan. The company will submit a draft plan this November, with a final plan due January of 2025. And PG&E has been clear that they...2023-08-1222 min

EcoNews ReportIncreasing Water Levels in the South Fork Eel RiverHow do you improve the flow of a river? Just ask our friends at Salmonid Restoration Federation. On this week's episode of the EcoNews Report host Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel River is joined by Dana Stolzman and Katrina Nystrom from Salmonid Restoration Federation, and Joel Monschke from Stillwater Sciences for a discussion of flow monitoring and enhancement projects on the South Fork Eel River. Tune in to learn more about SRF's decade of flow monitoring on Redwood Creek, the Marshall Ranch Flow Enhancement Project, and more.Learn more about Salmonid Restoration...2023-07-0128 min

EcoNews ReportWhat’s That Fence In the River?This week on the EcoNews Report hosts Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River and Tom Wheeler from EPIC discuss an experimental installation in the South Fork of the Eel River. Guests Marisa McGrew from the Wiyot Tribe's Natural Resources Department and Gabe Rossi and Philip Georgakakos, both research scientists with UC Berkeley, tell us all about the collaborative effort to install and manage a weir in the river. The primary purpose of the weir is to remove invasive pikeminnow from the river system and keep them away from prime rearing habitat for salmon and steelhead farther upstream.2023-06-1729 min

EcoNews ReportHow to Make Ethical Decisions in Complicated WorldTrying to be an ethical person in the modern world is hard. How should we weigh the site-specific impacts from wind energy development against the potential climate benefit? How far should we go to try to save an endangered species (and at what point is that resource allocation better served somewhere else)? Should we rely on our intuition or does that risk confirmation bias? Does climate change clarify our moral obligations or does it make finding the "right thing" even murkier? (Is there even a "right thing"!?)Do you think about these things? Because Gang Green does...2022-12-0333 min

EcoNews ReportHow Do We Count The Fish?On this week’s edition of the EcoNews Report, host Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel River is joined by three fisheries experts to talk about how we count fish in the Eel River. Tune in to hear from Wyatt Smith from the Round Valley Indian Tribes, Dave Kajtaniak from the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Charlie Schneider from California Trout as they discuss DIDSON cameras installed throughout the watershed and what data collected from these monitoring stations tells us about salmon and steelhead populations in the entire Eel River. This data can help influence con...2022-11-1429 min

EcoNews ReportFull Steam Ahead for the Great Redwood Trail!This week on the EcoNews Report your host Tom Wheeler chats with Friends of the Eel River's Alicia Hamann about the fantastic news that the Great Redwood Trail is finally in the clear from threats to take the public right of way. It's now full steam ahead on trail master planning - tune in to learn about how you can be involved and check out greatredwoodtrailplan.org. And in other groundbreaking news, Alicia shares information about the lawsuit just filed to protect public trust flows impacted by unregulated groundwater extraction in the Eel River.Links:...2022-10-2829 min

KZYX NewsRequested variance would result in drastic curtailmentsMay 31, 2022 — Russian River water users are preparing for another dry year, with water rights curtailments for those who depend on Lake Mendocino, and the possibility of just a trickle coming out of Lake Pillsbury. PG&E, which still owns and operates the Potter Valley Project under an annual license, has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to give it permission to release five cubic feet of water per second from Lake Pillsbury into the East Branch of the Russian River, which flows into Lake Mendocino. This is a variance from the 75 cubic feet per second that’s otherwise required for...2022-05-3106 min

KZYX NewsRights to cold water a hot topicMay 25, 2022 — The struggle over the water of the Eel River continues. With PG&E operating the Potter Valley Project on an annual license, environmental groups like Friends of the Eel River are claiming violations of the Endangered Species Act, and asking regulators to reconsider authorizing the annual license. Meanwhile, Russian River water users, whose attempt to take over the hydropower license was stymied by a lack of funds, are now strategizing how to acquire the water rights held by PG&E. “Our job is to protect the diversion, to assure that that water can continue to be diverted into the Russ...2022-05-2506 min

KZYX NewsGroups sue PG&E as Potter Valley Project license expiresApril 19, 2022 — The license for the Potter Valley Project expired on Thursday, April 14. By Friday, a coalition of environmentalists and fishermen had filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue PG&E, the project owner, under the Endangered Species Act. The main complaint is that the fish passage facility at Cape Horn Dam in Potter Valley causes unauthorized harm to endangered fish, by preventing their passage when the facility is clogged, or making them vulnerable to predators as they try to climb the ladder. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has authority over the project because its stated purpose is generating hy...2022-04-2006 min

KZYX Public AffairsThe Ecology Hour with Anna Halligan: The Potter Valley Project with Alicia HamannMarch 22, 2022--Anna Halligan speaks with Alicia Hamann, Executive Director at Friends of the Eel River, about the potential of a free flowing, undammed Eel River.2022-03-2857 min

KZYX NewsPotter Valley Project takes another turnFebruary 4, 2022 — The fate of the Potter Valley Project took a few more turns this week, with a regional coalition declaring it will not file for the license application and PG&E taking steps to operate the project under an annual license until the next development. PG&E, which owns and operates the project, announced in 2019 that it would not renew the license or continue to try to sell it. A regional coalition that includes Mendocino and Humboldt counties, California Trout, Sonoma Water Agency and the Round Valley Indian Tribes was the only entity willing to take on the license, which in...2022-02-0506 min

KZYX NewsPotter Valley Project relicensing effort facing costly hurdlesOctober 18, 2021 — Efforts to take over the license for the Potter Valley Project have had some significant setbacks lately. One is an expensive equipment failure that could take up to a year and a half to repair. The other is that the Two Basin Partnership, a coalition of entities seeking to take over the license from PG&E, has not been able to secure the funding it needs for studies that are necessary for a final license application. The Partnership asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for some extra time to come up with the money, but FERC refused. Now th...2021-10-1906 min

EcoNews ReportAn Existential Toolkit for the Climate GenerationHumboldt State professor Sarah Jaquette Ray talks with hosts Tom Wheeler and Alicia Hamann about how to avoid burnout, why peddling hope and leveraging guilt are not effective, and how we can move past the illusion of partisan division to working toward climate justice.A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, by Sarah Jaquette Ray. University of California Press.Sarah's book is available at Eureka Books and Northtown Books in Arcata. This show originally aired on May 10, 2020, but is as relevant today as it was then - perhaps more than ever, as drought and wild...2021-08-3045 min

KZYX NewsReduced flows to benefit wild fishJune 17, 2021 — Lake Mendocino’s supply of water from the Eel River is likely to dry up sometime this summer, due to flows being reduced to a fifth of what they were when conditions were dry rather than critical. The lake receives regular infusions of water from the east branch of the Russian River through the Eel River via the Potter Valley Project. The Project is still owned and operated by PG&E, though a regional consortium is working to take it over when the license expires next year. The two-basin solution, a post-PG&E proposal brokered by Congressman Jared Huffman, incl...2021-06-1706 min

EcoNews ReportAn Existential Toolkit for the Climate GenerationHumboldt State professor Sarah Jaquette Ray talks with hosts Tom Wheeler and Alicia Hamann about how to avoid burnout, why peddling hope and leveraging guilt are not effective, and how we can move past the illusion of partisan division to working toward climate justice.A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, by Sarah Jaquette Ray. University of California Press.Available for curbside pick-up at Eureka Books and Northtown Books in Arcata. Support the show 2020-05-1049 min

EcoNews ReportThe Wildlands Conservancy Protects Valuable California Ecology by Buying it UpEmily Allee of the Wildlands Conservancy joins Tom Wheeler (of EPIC) and Alicia Hamann (of Friends of the Eel) to talk about the ambitious work that the nonprofit is doing right here in Humboldt and across the state. Learn about the conservancy’s two unusual seaside properties along the Humboldt County coast (and how you might visit them) and their large plans for the Eel River, centered around the 30,000 Dean Witter Lone Pine Ranch.Support the show 2020-03-0127 min

EcoNews ReportDead Billboards, the Great Redwood Trail and More!It’s an environmental news roundup conrnucopia, as Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel River joins us to talk about the latest on the Great Redwood Trail andThe state of play with two fallen billboardsFuels management in the Six Rivers National Forest Summer steelhead and ESA listingWeird carbon sequestration ideas.… and more!Support the show 2020-02-1629 min